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Seibertron.com has received official images of the creation of the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, also known as Sideswipe, from Transformer Revenge of the Fallen. The GM Design Team was kind enough to share these amazing photos and concept art of the newest member of the Chevy family for your viewing pleasure.

First we get a look at what the designers were planning for the interior of the Stingray revamp.



The Designers were looking to channel the original Stingray in a futuristic design. Here we get a concept image of the two seating vehicle from an aerial perspective.



Sleek new "racing" seats were considered to give the driver full driving comfort with ideal support for handling the sports car.



Here are what the actual seats with dashboard look like in all black.



Workers craft the prototype mold of the Corvette.



Designers stand next to a prototype hood for the Corvette along with a look at the rear of the vehicle, or Sideswipes chest.





Sideswipes "Wings".



And we get a look at promo images for the Stingray.









For those of you that just can't get enough of this amazing car, check out these videos giving details on the cars interior and "transforming" capabilities:

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A very special thanks to General Motors and the GM Team, Stephen Gray and Robin Henderson for making this possible. Learn more about the Corvette Stingray Concept by visiting Cheverolet.com

That's no regular car, it's the Batmobile.

Sweet jesus what an awesome ride.

At first i thought the car was awesome but after seeing this its not just awesome its frakin epic.

no, it's not the batmobile at all,...it's secretly a silver repaint of the Mach 5....speed racer is in hiding from racer X.

That is a pretty awesome car. I'll never own one, but it's still pretty damn cool

Damn that's good!

This would've been perfect for Blur

Very cool! I love looking at the concept and development stages of such designs.

But Blurr? Paint it blue and call it Tracks. Firebird is optional.

sick

Damn... nice.

Those promo pics are epic.

LittleDickens5 wrote:This would've been perfect for Blur

You mean Tracks.

Beautiful Car. Shame it never got put into production. I'd love to see it in other colors too.

Those are awesome pictures! Would you guys be kind enough to post the ones with the blue hue in wallpaper sizes and preferably some less visible/smaller watermark that doesn't distract from the image?

EDIT: Wow, i can't believe i never posted here since i made this account...

Tyrannotaur wrote:Beautiful Car. Shame it never got put into production. I'd love to see it in other colors too.

My thoughts exactly, I was able to see the Stingray in person....it's just soooooo captivating to just look at. I mean, I must have stood out there for a good 15-20 min just looking and taking pictures of the beautiful car. The hood pic featured here seems a tad huge though. I don't remember the Stingray being that large, and I was pretty much standing next to it. That or that guy is very tiny.

But so what if the car is tiny....still just as appealing, even if I can't fit into it ha ha ha....
Laters,
Josh

I can best describe my thoughts like this...



Yeap that about covers it.

Classy

Wow!! I thought the new Corvette that pulled alongside me last night was beautiful but this just blows it all out of the water!

Epic car real shame it was never put into production would have been fantabulous to see how the Stig drove it round the top gear track (for all us Brits anyway)

*returns to drooling over pictures*

One word: Sexy

Joshua Vallse wrote:

Tyrannotaur wrote:Beautiful Car. Shame it never got put into production. I'd love to see it in other colors too.

My thoughts exactly, I was able to see the Stingray in person....it's just soooooo captivating to just look at. I mean, I must have stood out there for a good 15-20 min just looking and taking pictures of the beautiful car. The hood pic featured here seems a tad huge though. I don't remember the Stingray being that large, and I was pretty much standing next to it. That or that guy is very tiny.

But so what if the car is tiny....still just as appealing, even if I can't fit into it ha ha ha....
Laters,
Josh

Yeah they need make a production line of it stat! It totally looks like the Mach 5 from speed racer, if you put the right colors on it you'd totally see it with right paint job. (though Id prefer silver anyways.)

I've never had that probelm Josh, I'll gladly take it off your hands hehe. As a wolverine sized guy(5'4"), it's perfect. I might need a shorter girlfriend though, since she complains same thing cars being too small/or low to ground at 6'4". Sorry baby, I going out with Sideswipe to score some honeys and damn are we good. (I kid I kid, please don't slag me.)

It's a sweet ride, I'd like see more of it and Sideswipe in the next movie for sure.

Lastjustice wrote:
Yeah they need make a production line of it stat! It totally looks like the Mach 5 from speed racer, if you put the right colors on it you'd totally see it with right paint job. (though Id prefer silver anyways.)

I've never had that probelm Josh, I'll gladly take it off your hands hehe. As a wolverine sized guy(5'4"), it's perfect. I might need a shorter girlfriend though, since she complains same thing cars being too small/or low to ground at 6'4". Sorry baby, I going out with Sideswipe to score some honeys and damn are we good. (I kid I kid, please don't slag me.)

It's a sweet ride, I'd like see more of it and Sideswipe in the next movie for sure.

Oh no you don't! I might not fit into it but I'll still find a way to drive it by God! Ha ha ha
I'm also a lone wolf, so Ive never had an issue with what the miss thinks. I'd say this car looks to be the size of a honda Civic Hatchback....and I have a friend who drove one of those and while I was straddling the car door prepping to do camera moves for the car chase for my short film, my feet could still touch the ground, in fact all I had to do to get out of the car through her window was stand up......funny stuff.
So I'd probably drive this car in the same fashion.

The only dilemma here is the same I had with the Camaro, I don't trust myself with it. But then again, the blasted thing isn't even in production so....all we have are dreams.
*Sigh*

Since Chevy will never make the Stingray concept unlike the Camaro I doubt they would use it in the next movie. They only made the car for the ROTF.Don't get why they paid so much money to make a car for a movie when they will not make it..waste of money and advertisement. Then again it is Chevy..they obviously like wasting money. Anyways, question is this..think he will become a real Corvette? Or what Chevy do you think he will be? Possible he may stay the same, but who knows. They obviously won't make him what he is suppose to be.

Metal Monkey wrote:Since Chevy will never make the Stingray concept unlike the Camaro I doubt they would use it in the next movie. They only made the car for the ROTF.Don't get why they paid so much money to make a car for a movie when they will not make it..waste of money and advertisement. Then again it is Chevy..they obviously like wasting money. Anyways, question is this..think he will become a real Corvette? Or what Chevy do you think he will be? Possible he may stay the same, but who knows. They obviously won't make him what he is suppose to be.

The cars sole purpose was not just for ROTF. It was a concept car already in the process of being built that they decided to use as a character.
99% of concept cars no matter who the manufacturer is are never put into production. There are a few exceptions (Chevy Camaro, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Viper, Chrysler Prowler) There purpose is to gage interest in new designs as well as new technology. Though you'll probably never see This exact Corvette go to production, you might start seeing similar design cues such as the real lights or gull wing doors in future Corvette models. It all depends on the public's reaction. The ford mustang took its design ques heavily from its concept back in 03'.
Also this will be great advertisement for GM. People will instantly recognise it as the "car from transformers". So it won't be the waste of money that you seem to think it is.

5150 Cruiser wrote:

Metal Monkey wrote:Since Chevy will never make the Stingray concept unlike the Camaro I doubt they would use it in the next movie. They only made the car for the ROTF.Don't get why they paid so much money to make a car for a movie when they will not make it..waste of money and advertisement. Then again it is Chevy..they obviously like wasting money. Anyways, question is this..think he will become a real Corvette? Or what Chevy do you think he will be? Possible he may stay the same, but who knows. They obviously won't make him what he is suppose to be.

The cars sole purpose was not just for ROTF. It was a concept car already in the process of being built that they decided to use as a character.
99% of concept cars no matter who the manufacturer is are never put into production. There are a few exceptions (Chevy Camaro, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Viper, Chrysler Prowler) There purpose is to gage interest in new designs as well as new technology. Though you'll probably never see This exact Corvette go to production, you might start seeing similar design cues such as the real lights or gull wing doors in future Corvette models. It all depends on the public's reaction. The ford mustang took its design ques heavily from its concept back in 03'.
Also this will be great advertisement for GM. People will instantly recognise it as the "car from transformers". So it won't be the waste of money that you seem to think it is.

I wouldn't say made only for transformers, but that is what the rumor is going around in all the car mags. Car and driver..and such. I do think it is possible they may make it. The demand is there. I only think it is a waste of money if they decide not to make it. Now that the Camaro is out...Corvette sales have been and are hurting. They need to do something to bring it out of the fire...it would be a waste of money if they did nothing with that stingray. Advertising a concept such as being in Transformers with no intention of making it.....that is dumb. I know this from all my car reading. They are going to change the Corvette. They are going to put a way bigger motor in it. The Camaro comes to close to the performance of the Corvette, so they want the Corvette to be once again the "super car" of GM. The main point of my last post is this. If they do decide not to make the Stingray concept, I do not see them using it in the next movie. At the same time I don't see them changing it either. Honestly with Bay who knows. He likes to change everything, so all in all we just have to live with it.

If they just had to use a Chevy they should of used this. While the Stingray is cool, it isn't something people could buy. If they would of had this one in the movie I'm sure they would of sold a few more of these. This is just an opinion. I don't like Sideswipe being Silver, so I would rather this, or a red stingray at least.

At least this thing really does exist. It's a ZR1 Corvette. Starts around $100,000.00!


A better color is this custom color redish here: http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-zr1/pictures/

I personally like this better than the Stingray. If the Stingray was a little more aggressive looking then I wouldn't care. The thing I just don't like is the Silver. Just feels like the transformers are all like power rangers now. They all have to be completely different colors.

Metal Monkey wrote:If they just had to use a Chevy they should of used this. While the Stingray is cool, it isn't something people could buy. If they would of had this one in the movie I'm sure they would of sold a few more of these. This is just an opinion. I don't like Sideswipe being Silver, so I would rather this, or a red stingray at least.

At least this thing really does exist. It's a ZR1 Corvette. Starts around $100,000.00!


A better color is this custom color redish here: http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-zr1/pictures/

I personally like this better than the Stingray. If the Stingray was a little more aggressive looking then I wouldn't care. The thing I just don't like is the Silver. Just feels like the transformers are all like power rangers now. They all have to be completely different colors.

Sorry to who made this topic. This was merged from a topic I made that had nothing to do with the Concept car you posted. I guess any topic about Sideswipe should also be moved here? Some people are just too ignorant. Apparently I can not get any proper feedback on my topic because it would be considered "off topic" or "spam" towards your topic. Sorry again. I had nothing to do with this and again, I did not post this here. I have reported it. We shall see how far it goes.